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Surviving Memorial Day weekend: Navigate travel chaos with these tips

As the Memorial Day weekend approaches, travelers across the U.S. are bracing themselves for significant crowds and airport delays due to increased demand and air traffic control constraints. The Federal Aviation Administration anticipates a record-breaking number of flights this Thursday, with close to 54,000 nationwide departures — marking the busiest travel day of 2025 so far. According to the American Automobile Association, nearly 45 million Americans plan to travel at least 50 miles away from home over the long weekend. Of those, approximately 3.6 million will travel by air, repres

Delayed FDA response to listeria outbreak tied to Fresh and Ready Foods

Tariffs reshape U.S. e-commerce: Temu and Shein confront new challenges

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How a water bottle, family tree and DNA testing helped solve a 24-year-old murder mystery!

More than 20 years after the brutal murder of Leslie Preer in 2001, the case finally came to a close. Investigators in Montgomery County, Maryland, used tools of modern forensic science — a bottle of water, a family tree, and the evolving science of genetic genealogy — to solve the case. Eugene Gligor, 45, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Preer’s Chevy Chase home. According to prosecutors, the break in the case came not from a new eyewitness or confession, but DNA evidence re-examined using technology unavailable at the time of the crime. Investigators identified Gligor t

Sextortion nightmare: How one teen's trust cost him everything

Will Billy and Tina find freedom? Activists challenge zoo move

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51 kiosks offer free COVID-19 tests and health supplies across Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County has deployed 51 Community Health Station kiosks offering free COVID-19 self-test kits, fentanyl test strips, and other health supplies to residents across the region. The self-service stations, accessible seven days a week, aim to increase access to essential health resources, particularly in communities with limited healthcare options. Initially established to distribute COVID-19 antigen tests, the program has expanded to address multiple public health crises affecting the county. Officials cite alarming statistics as motivation for the expansion, including a 48% increa

From Gulf of Mexico to Persian Gulf: Trump's name-change diplomacy stirs global tides

California bar exam’s AI fallout: $6 million in unplanned costs

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Suge Knight thinks 'Diddy' should testify

Imprisoned former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight, who for decades shared an acrimonious relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs, urged his longtime archrival to take the stand in his ongoing trial.Speaking to CNN’s Laura Coates in a brief phone interview from prison, where he’s serving a 28-year-sentence for a deadly hit-and-run in 2015, Knight said he believed Combs should “humanize” himself.“I feel if he do tell his truth, he really would walk,” Knight said. “If Puffy goes up there and says, ‘Hey … I did all the drugs, I wasn’t in control of my life at the time, or m

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Trump calls Musk "terrific" and announces press conference with him Friday

U.S. President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk on Thursday and said he will hold a press conference with the billionaire, whose tenure in the administration is ending, on Friday at 1:30 p.m. EST (1730 GMT) in the Oval Office."This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. "Elon is terrific!"Musk announced he was stepping down from his White House stint on Wednesday, giving Tesla investors some succor after shares slumped this year in part due to the backlash to his support of Trump and right-wing partie

Tariffs will cost Gap up to $150 million

Appeals court pauses ruling that blocked Trump’s tariffs

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Karen Read’s defense set to call its first witness in her retrial in the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend

Karen Read’s defense is set to call its first witness on Friday, marking a new phase in her retrial in the killing of John O’Keefe, her off-duty Boston police officer boyfriend whose body was found buried in the snow outside a home in Canton, Massachusetts, in January 2022.Read – whose first trial ended with a hung jury – has already promised a “more robust” case than the one her attorneys put on last year, when they called six witnesses for less than two full days of testimony. Their case this time is “broader and deeper,” Read told reporters last week, saying it will include

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Trump met with Jerome Powell today to scold him about rates. Powell stressed the Fed is staying out of politics

President Donald Trump on Thursday met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for the first time in his second term, scolding him for not lowering borrowing costs. Powell maintained that any decisions won’t be based on the president’s demands.The meeting, which comes after months of unrelenting attacks from Trump against the Fed chief, took place at the White House and was at Trump’s request.“Chair Powell did not discuss his expectations for monetary policy, except to stress that the path of policy will depend entirely on incoming economic information and what that means for the outl

What else can Trump do on global tariffs after US court ruling?

Fed's Goolsbee: US trade court ruling may extend tariff uncertainty

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Flood risk threatens Swiss valley after village destroyed by glacier

Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has sparked warnings that further evacuations may be needed amid the risk of flooding in the Alpine valley.A deluge of millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down a mountain on Wednesday, engulfing the village of Blatten, and the few houses that remained later flooded. Its 300 residents had been evacuated earlier in May after part of the mountain behind the Birch Glacier began to crumble.Flooding increased on Thursday as the mound of debris almost 2 km (1.2 m

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Why this leading AI CEO is warning the tech could cause mass unemployment

The chief executive of one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs is warning that the technology could cause a dramatic spike in unemployment in the very near future. He says policymakers and corporate leaders aren’t ready for it.“AI is starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks, and we’re going to collectively, as a society, grapple with it,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview on Thursday. “AI is going to get better at what everyone does, including what I do, including what other CEOs do.”Amodei believes

Smoke to pour into the US as Canada wildfires force province’s largest evacuation in ‘living memory’

The US academic partnership with China, under strain for years, faces its biggest threat

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Harrison Ruffin Tyler, preserver of Virginia history and grandson of 10th US president, dies at 96

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of U.S. President John Tyler born 83 years after his grandfather left the White House in 1845, died. He was 96. The cause of Tyler's death on Sunday was not immediately released. John Tyler was 63 years old when Harrison Tyler’s father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr., was born. And Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 when that father was 75 years old and the presidential grandfather had been dead for more than 60 years. The grandson was known for preserving his grandfather’s plantation and nearby Civil War fort. In a

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Massive wildfires in Canada force thousands to evacuate

Massive wildfires burning out of control in western and central Canada are forcing thousands to flee as dire forecasts for the country’s fire season come to fruition. The intensifying blazes are also sending hazardous smoke toward major cities in the United States.The premiers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan have declared states of emergency, and much of Canada, from the Northwest Territories and Alberta to Ontario, are at “extreme” risk of wildfires on Friday — the highest level on Environment Canada’s fire risk scale.There are just over 170 wildfires burning across Canada as of Thursd